Country People
Good Country People and Those Who Hate Them In Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," the protagonist Hulga, spends her entire adult life doing her best to deny and rebel against her mother's optimistic attitude. Hulga is a highly educated southern woman who lost her leg in an accident at the age of ten and suffers from a heart ailment. Due to these hardships, at thirty-two she still lives with her mother. The highly educated Hulga feels superior to those around her due to their lack of education and complexity. Hulga has no control over the negative emotions she feels, and allows these incidents to shape the remainder of her life. O'Connor uses Hulga to demonstrate how an intense feeling of hostility and intellectual superiority can damage relationships, inhibit intellectual and emotional growth, and blind one to reality. Hulga despises her situation and believes that she is mentally above those around her, therefore, she feels no need to develop her relations with them. She resents the heart
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Approximate Word count = 685
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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